I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

I worked with John Maybury on The Jacket and I think he's an extraordinary film-maker. I read the first drafts of this piece when I was working on The Jacket, and we'd so fallen in love with him that we thought he was the only person that should direct this! We wrote poems for him, we sent him champagne and cakes. Four years later he finally read it.

The highest percentage of England's top jobs are filled by graduates from about two different universities.

The most important thing in playing any character is not judging.

The thing I love about acting is getting to change and look at different people in different lives and do different projects.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

Because it does feel important to say it really doesn't matter what shape you are.